RT @jeamland: I can’t help but think that Seek is lying to me… http://t.co/I4kVVLft1d
GreenJ At risk of breaking ranks on the congratulations: a state politics reporter going to work for that state govt shouldn’t raise eyebrows?
Today we are all fucking daleks.
@abc730 No rush. I’ve already killed a kitten in your name.
Focus completely lost, the headache less so. Abandoning work, heading to Leura Mall to buy comfort food plus a bucket for my tears.
Maybe the internet could drop by and tell me, well, everything really.
Losing focus. No, correction. Lost focus. But I have gained a headache. Excellent.
paulwallbank RT @mylescarrick: Australian Tax Office stores our passwords in plain text? You have *got* to be joking bit.ly/12cotpO
So why has @abc730 got a space in the middle of my name in this transcript? Ahem. http://t.co/tIw2ZPSj2H
The_Whip_Hand When people text me “plz” because it’s shorter than “please”, I text back “no” because it’s shorter than “yes”.
nprmonkeysee “This is what it sounds like when every note is as loud a sound as my lungs can make.” #idol
Pollytics You probably wouldn’t download a Scott Morrison either. Malware
Pollytics You wouldn’t download an asylum seeker o_O
nicster Bwahaha RT @1Happytwit: My boyfriend asked me why I bother watching cooking shows when I cant cook so I asked why he bothered watching porn.
A taxi has been summoned, and it shall take me to Leura for lunch and stuff.
RT @riskybusiness: @stilgherrian cough. http://t.co/qtAMg4LETb [Also coughs http://t.co/I7yq529oAK though you win, Patrick.]
Look, folks, I don’t think we need to waste time arguing about who is and isn’t a Unabomber…
Article filed for @crikey_news! Probably not the most insightful thing I’ve written but, you know, deadlines.
Fuck. I’m sitting in my underwear in an isolated forest cottage, banging out a cranky rant against political stupidity. It’s the end game.
Two different tweets, two different topics, same old sexism. @amychozick @carr2n @SecWonk @gattaca twitpic.com/c7cmk2
Thu plan: Write for @crikey_news; lunch (where?); prep for tomorrow’s recording; write for @zdnetaustralia; shopping; quiet evening, I hope.
RT @giz_au: Listen To Ruslan Kogan Talk About Where He Came From And Where He’s Going [Thanks, but Id rather stab forks into my eyes.]
@riskybusiness And how the heck do you explain that to a non-technical audience in 5 minutes? Interesting angle, but too hard for @abc730.
@Asher_Wolf @iBIeeter Though I know your point is about media misattribution rather than an un-organisation’s organisation.
@Asher_Wolf @iBIeeter Well diddums to them. Can’t have “anyone can join Anonymous” and “no leaders” then whine when the bandwagon is joined.
@DDsD I can recommend CityMove, have done last few moves with them.
@vealmince @riskybusiness Yes, @abc730 fell into the PHEAR ALL THE CYBERS hole a bit there. MSM generally behind the pace in comprehension.
@yinettesys @purserj @riskybusiness Maybe we need to send @abc730 a list of real hackerish things they could shoot for stock.
Thanks, @iBIeeter @yinettesys @R_Chirgwin, that confirms my guess that #OpWilders + Anonpaste = Anonymous. Or something.
Last night’s @abc730 story with @riskybusiness et moi is “Hacker attacks ABC, private information released” http://t.co/tIw2ZPSj2H
Finally watching last night’s @abc730 story. Seeing @riskybusiness dissolve into The Matrix at the end confirms my long-held suspicions.
I ask because by the time I was being recorded for @abc730, “linked to Anonymous” was already a news angle being discussed.
The ABC hack story, did that get (potentially) attributed to Anonymous solely on the basis of the #OpWilders hashtag?
Thu plan, unordered: Prepare for tomorrow’s recording; write for @zdnetaustralia; write another piece, maybe; and lunch where, exactly?
Thursday. Sore throat. Disgruntlement.
So with Tea Tree Cottage reached and horizontality achieved, that’s pretty much the end of the day.
paulwallbank @stilgherrian just imagine what the modern world would be like if the Nazis had Churchill parody videos
Just imagine what the modern world would be like if the Nazis had retweet bots.
@JohnBirmingham @NewtonMark @sylmobile Well, since I know my place as your rural Twitter meat puppet, I shall do your bidding.
@NewtonMark According to Wikipedia*, National Action is all Queensland these days. http://t.co/MbBmhldvaw (* Yeah shut up.)
@NewtonMark Just imagine what the modern world would be like if the Nazis had retweet bots.
@dobes All I know is that [REDACTED] left the edit suite and came back a short time later with a jacket. “It’s not mine,” they said.
Walking… talking… both were convincing. Thanks, @johncarneyau.
Thank you, everyone, the consensus seems to be that I convinced you I knew what I was walking about. And really, that’s all that matters.
I hope whatever I just said on TV (I’m not watching) wasn’t rendered arsehattery by facts discovered since I was recorded at 1515 AEDT.
53% of passwords in today’s ABC data breach cracked in 45 seconds. http://t.co/0RlcOs6QJ8 HT @troyhunt
@riskybusiness As I type that, I’m reminded that Anonymous is a brand anyone can adopt. Like Al Queda. Or Hello Kitty. Well, maybe not.
@riskybusiness It does sound like a solo job, yes, but where does capital-A Anonymous end and generic anonymous attacks begin?
So @riskybusiness and I talk about the Anonymous #OpWilders hack of an ABC website on @abc730 just started on ABC1.
The Light on the Hill instagr.am/p/WOjIHLiFpm/
@Geedess Yes, it’s quite healthy to not see Madonna.
The very fact that Madonna still HAS a cleavage should be celebrated as one of the Miracles of modern medicine.
On and fucking on they rant…
Crossing the Nepean instagr.am/p/WOcddWCFmj/
The 1723 is in motion.
@iBIeeter @riskybusiness Yes, as @sherro58 said at #ks13, MSM like @abc730 need to remember that 2/3 of us do understand technology.
@iBIeeter @abc730 @riskybusiness What you’re talking about is more a 4 Corners job, except that wouldn’t cut it for general public interest.
Well as it turns out, I’ll be able to catch the 1723 fnord train.
@iBIeeter @abc730 @riskybusiness Yeah good luck with fitting all that into a 4-minute story for tonight. ;)
abc730 We talk hacking & the #OpWilders ABC attack on #abc730 tonight, with insights from @riskybusiness & @stilgherrian…
@marshontap PLACE cyber-hacker training barracks!
I also like how the newer UTS buildings have integrated student accommodation, like some David Koresh cult compound.
Each evening, UTS students stream through the ABC foyer to Central station, like rats through a sewer.
RT @chrlfx: @stilgherrian while you’re in ‘downtime’ ponder how we can make The Blue Mountains the next Silicon Valley … [Big bulldozer.]
RT @chrisjrn Jacket? What happened to your TV shirt? [It’s in the wash.]
Please choose a reality instagr.am/p/WOLsrtiFrS/
Well that’s the @abc730 interview done, in a borrowed jacket. I’m now in the ABC foyer, dealing with email.
@abc730 Yeah we’d better aim at that. See you soon.
So there’s three places at Central to buy party frocks, but none selling men’s shirts. @abc730 will just have to cope. #infosecindrag
Shouty tuneless busker is shouty. And tuneless.
You might well say that.
@darrenpauli @abc730 I’d have thought “arsehat” was the traditional term.
Wed plan, re-planned: Get clean shirt; 1500-ish ABC Ultimo for @abc730 interview; collect laundry; collect suitcase; 1737 train outta here.
@mukimu Oh I have always been pleased with @zdnetaustralia’s more restrained and traditional reportage style. Rumours are not facts.
Meanwhile, I just have Received a Telephone Call from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Here’s @mukimu’s take on the ABC hack story. Note the use of “alleged”. http://t.co/wTwnKyubaw
I see the Anonymous Institute of Extreme Cleverness has been at work again… http://t.co/DcwFEhKdCu
@liubinskas @pollenizer Were his predictions for January and February accurate?
Disrupt all the things!
Being synergised by thought leadership.
If I’d known there was going to be a TED Twitterstream I’d have obtained ten tabs of acid and taken the day off to watch.
edyong209 Re: the TED tweetstream, actual people are saying these things. Real people with actual thoughts. It’s like Vogon poetry.
@myrcurial Kill them. Kill them all. @liquidmatrix
Noted wireless network engineer Alan Kohler invents Fibre-to-the-Dooverlackies. As fast as FTTP, he proclaims! http://t.co/aeBd1nyhks
Dear PR People, not all of the observations or statements made by your client are you “insights”.
@charispalmer Oh yes, our paths are bound to cross very, very soon.
RT @chrisjrn: @stilgherrian Immediate Salami would be an excellent name for a podcast. [Um, true, though that was meant to be a DM. Oops.]
RT @charispalmer: Some personal news - I’m going back into editing as editor at iTNews, starting next month. itnews.com.au [Grats!]
No, I want the salami now! IMMEDIATE SALAMI.
Valuable Stilgherrian-related opportunity! Anyone needing to urgently buy me lunch can do so today. Afternoon meetings are possible too.
@dikkii Oh didn’t we already know that classical economics’ “rational actor” was wrong? :) Humans are annoyingly complicated.
@dikkii I don’t know what the answer might be, but I don’t think it’s stupidity. Even non-stupid people don’t use Diaspora. [shrugs]
@dikkii Yet even if a Diaspora pod can do all the things (and even if it can’t), Diaspora hasn’t taken off. The answer can’t be capability?
Wed plan, draft: A day of research and planning, in between errands to Enmore and Sydney CBD; 1737 [?] train to Wentworth Falls; sloth.
@dikkii Diaspora exists and is free, but is only the software, surely? There’s more to a service than just its software.
Final plug for my @AppDotNet freemium yarns at @TechnologySpec http://t.co/E0eiXigVTF and @crikey_news http://t.co/JM1NzYEvJK
It is, or so I have been led to believe, Wednesday. Good morning to it, and you.
@dobes Also, we weren’t shouting.
@dobes @SnarkyPlatypus We never argue.
@dobes So why are you eavesdropping on us, exactly? @SnarkyPlatypus
@dobes @SnarkyPlatypus Wut?
I could make that Special Gesture.
I can probably influence that decision.
You wouldn’t download a bin night.
NewtonMark Worst bin night since Federation.
So @en_gy’s at the cocaine already this afternoon? It’s a bit early for a Tuesday.
NOW BRING ON THE GODDAM ASTEROID YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.
3. “The Twitter alternative you might be willing to pay for” at @crikey_news,also being about @AppDotNet http://t.co/JM1NzYEvJK
2. “http://t.co/VQbCLy19d8’s freemium gamble” at @TechnologySpec [Yes, @AppDotNet now has free accounts.] http://t.co/E0eiXigVTF
1. “Vulnerability mythbuster: Windows, Flash good; Apple, Linux bad” at @CSO_Australia, now with a chart. http://t.co/5UboT4M9t0
I shall now re-pimp the three things I had published today, after which I shall shout at the sky until an asteroid destroys the city.
Cheese plate, Rockpool instagr.am/p/WLYpbaCFvJ/
Less sweaty.
Sweating.
RT @firstdogonmoon just swam with a dozen fur seals [Most people make do with Speedos…]
RT RT: Me at @CSO_Australia: “Vulnerability mythbuster: Windows, Flash good; Apple, Linux bad” http://t.co/5UboT4M9t0
Me at @technologyspec: http://t.co/VQbCLy19d8’s freemium gamble” http://t.co/E0eiXigVTF
Being Kasperskied.
I’m feeling rather too sweaty for the refined environment of Rockpool, but I’ve been rushing around. I blame God.
Right. Story filed for @crikey_news. Time to dump my suitcase at the hotel and rush to lunch. Zooooooom!
Doing a rushed final edit on a railway station platform. Quality will certainly suffer.
Arriving at Central, finally. It looks like I’ll be finishing this article on the platform before going anywhere else.
Using the word “paucity” in a sentence. Because I can.
Crossing the Nepean instagr.am/p/WLAS_liFu2/
@SnarkyPlatypus Yeah, I think I’ll take a deep breath, copy these words over into the file for The Full Tilt, and start again.
Oh. I seem to have forgotten what I was meant to be writing about and instead poured out a 400-word rant against Neo-Randian Arsehats.
We’ve just been told that in 5 minutes a city-bound (“up”) train will arrive on the down track, continuing thereupon until we reach Lawson.
It is now 13 minutes after the time the 0837 train was meant to depart. Yet it has not arrived. Because this. http://t.co/E01HNqZ5XN
@sebchan And as long as there’s no putting of fingers into dykes.
There are schoolchildren touching each other in the pie shop.
The journey to Sydney begins instagr.am/p/WKzovFiFue/
But , you know, keep on ranting, ‘cos I can incorporate all this misinformed randomness into my @crikey_news yarn.
Perhaps a tiny shaved mind can’t comprehend that freemium doesn’t mean advertising-supported.
@paulwallbank Oi you! I’ve been to Rockpool before, and they didn’t frown at me very much at all.
@emmackat Thanks, but my philosophy is that knowing the timetable doesn’t make the trains run any earlier. Laissez-faire all the trains!
Whoever coined the slogan “Information wants to be free” must have confused “libertarian” with “librarian”.
@oberonsghost Thanks for the heads-up. It’s a good thing I decided to travel down earlier than usual to get minor, skippable errands done.
Tue plan, updated: 0837 train to Sydney; write for @crikey_news en route; 1200 Kaspersky launch, Rockpool; an afternoon of facing facts.
“Introducing the new Gillard range of gourmet accessories…” instagr.am/p/WKtcyECFnd/
Tue plan: Bump out Wattle Cottage (mostly done); 0837 train to Sydney; 1200 Kaspersky launch, Rockpool; an afternoon of facing facts.
Full Moon is just a few minutes away, at 0726 AEDT.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. La forêt d’eucalyptus est enveloppée dans le brouillard pluie et doux, cacher la tristesse. Et vous?
@iBIeeter Yeah I started writing a comment explaining “straining at gnats” and pedantry generally, but decided I couldn’t be bothered.
Dawn, with spitting rain instagr.am/p/WKpIgxiFjM/
RT: Me at @CSO_Australia: “Vulnerability mythbuster: Windows, Flash good; Apple, Linux bad” http://t.co/5UboT4M9t0
Dealing with the domain name system.
Meanwhile, here’s my Sept 2012 “Patch Monday” podcast interview with @AppDotNet’s @daltonc. http://t.co/95iQgfSYyB
I have a story on @AppDotNet’s freemium model, quoting @daltonc @leslienassar @kcarruthers, coming up on @technologyspec. When they wake up.
So @AppDotNet is now freemium. Free limited accounts are available via invites from paid members. http://t.co/29F4A7u1Io
Tue plan, draft: Bump out Wattle Cottage; 0837 train to Sydney; 1200 Kaspersky launch, Rockpool; remainder TBA, but something complicated.
Botheration. Full Moon isn’t until 0726 AEDT, but Mistress Insomnia is keen to see me awake at this time.
Me at @CSO_Australia: “Vulnerability mythbuster: Windows, Flash good; Apple, Linux bad” http://t.co/5UboT4M9t0
Rearranging all the things.
Oh. Full Moon. Well played.
@jonoabroad I have no idea.
@PointZeroOne @technologyspec True, this is what editors are for. But I try to file stories hat are not overly crap.
Overly-long and possibly repetitive repetitive story filed for @technologyspec.
Oh FFS. #headdesk
Applying a plumber’s friend to an editorial production pipeline.
I have written too many words.
Well the thunderstorm has helped me regain focus on the article I’m writing. Electrifying! [Groan.]
Thunderstorm.
Committing acts of journalism, with coffee.
I know that my bank cares about me, personally, because they’ve changed the typography on their website and used the word “seamlessly”.
@John_Sots The rosellas have quite distinct personalities, but also this one looked different from the one on the photo. Maybe his mate.
AndrewPStreet I doubt Sting’s familiar enough with Roxanne’s economic or societal situation to determine whether or not she needs to put on the red light.
@HomeAwayAU Holiday rental wasn’t my need, but that’s a handy list of Sydney options, ta. http://t.co/1UStdZAbyG @juhasaarinen @domknight
Whoever decided that voice-to-SMS instead of proper voicemail should be a thing needs a giraffe shoved sideways up their arse.
@jonoabroad “Tonic” isn’t even a word by itself.
RT @christopherneal: If you were in SFO at RSAC it would be [wine time]. [Correct, and I’d be at a cocktail party right now. Sigh.]
Being visited at @bunjaree’s Wattle Cottage by a crimson rosella, but not the same one as I photographed last year. http://t.co/kecvl6jChi
Is it time for wine yet?
Wow. @RealNickHodge and @en_gy have just merged into one.
I assume Delta Goodrem will be doing Jimmy Barnes covers.
RT @glitchr_: 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ه҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈
“People like us — could poor hiring practices bring down Silicon Valley?” asks @paulwallbank http://t.co/iNqfDgI2WL
Story filed for @CSO_Australia, because I’m efficient.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oui, nous pourrions être dans une sorte de bas grade enfer. J’ai vu le chat nu.
@SnarkyPlatypus Il y aura beaucoup de temps pour dormir quand vous êtes morts.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Il est étrange étoffe bleue entre les morceaux de ciel et je me sens effrayée. Et vous?
Mon plan: Write for @CSO_Australia and @technologyspec; sort out the last few lingering webby things; blog post; early night.
RT @paulcarr: This story has possibly the best UPDATE: of all time. http://t.co/w0HBs3sXrE
I was not wondering.
I AM SULKING BECAUSE I AM NOT IN SAN FRANCISCO FOR THE RSA CONFERENCE AND I BLAME THE ENTIRE INFORMATION SECURITY INDUSTRY.
Mon plan, early draft: Write for @CSO_Australia and @technologyspec; sort out the last few lingering webby things; blog post; early night.
“Let us appreciate every blessing that pours on us day in and day out,” says a spam comment on a blog post about urinals. Blessings indeed.
Hello, Monday. This is all happening slightly earlier than I’d intended. Humph.
RT @jeamland: If you need to borrow a USB memory stick, @stilgherrian’s your guy. [It’s true, I have a sack of the things.]
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 142: Queensland, rain, alcohol and suchlike” http://t.co/EnB60i8S16
Taxi driver just asked me “As a journalist, do you think that if Rudd replaced Gillard he’d change the election date?” I started crying.
@corduroy I’ll bear that in mind, and vice versa.
@johnthelutheran The avatar is a doodle by @NickHodgeMSFT or @RealNickHodge, one of those two chimera, from last week.
Oh, it’s The Grand Olive, @corduroy instagr.am/p/WG7IHnCFt5/
@simonhackett @zemmiph0bia @chrisjrn No-one was innocent in that video.
Wentworth Falls seems to be in the middle of a thunderstorm at the moment, so I’ve gone to The Green Olive for a pizza.
The railbus is arriving at Wentworth Falls momentarily.
@simonhackett Yes, it’s therefore disappointing that my line about white English-speaking geeks was cut. ;) @Zemmiph0bia @chrisjrn
We have nothing anyway.
@Zemmiph0bia @chrisjrn Yeah look let’s just pretend that @simonhackett and I did NOT do synchronised head-nodding, OK?